Spec me a router

Robbo

Robbo

Robbo

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Hi guys, I'll try and keep this short.

I currently have a very old, very crap Philips snb6500 router.

I have a 50MB cable line. The router can't wirelessly transmit the full speed, so I download at about 1.7-2MB instead of 5MB~.

What are the minimum requirements a new router will need so it can support my full line speed? Any recommendations?

(I have decent wireless adapters, so they aren't an issue)
 
No real budget but nothing too extreme of course.

Wirelessly, my speed tests cap out with my current router at 16MB where as it's 50MB with a wire, what causes this exactly? (so I know what particular part of the specification I'm looking for if I pop to the shop later)
 
So dual band wireless is required for it to work with wireless N and older devices, or will the older ones be okay on a wireless N router without dual band?
 
Ah okay.

Can I ask though, what exactly makes it limited to 16MB at the moment (the crap one I have now)? The frequency? The Mbps?
 
I'm not on Virgin, I live in Norway and you just have to buy your own router here. :p

The 108Mbps setting is called Philips Turbo in the router settings, and if I enable that, nothing can connect to it, so I assume it's either some dodgy Philips thing or it's broken!

In England, I had this - http://www.netgear.co.uk/home/products/wirelessrouters/high-performance/DGND3300.aspx

Which was excellent, no issues with it at all but it can't be used with a cable line so it's gathering dust... :(

I imagine almost anything would be an improvement. :eek:
 
I don't know exactly how it's set up, there is a very large wall-box with a lot of wires and such in. I'm on an extension of the line in another part of the building.

I can, using a wire, just plug my computer into the wall and it works though, so I assume there is a central network hub in that wall-box that I described (but I don't have access to it).
 
Sorry for the really late reply Space Monkey, I was going to get a Netgear router but the shop here stopped selling them, and they only had Cisco ones, so I got a Cisco Linksys E3200.

Had it for a week now and everything is running flawlessly, impressed! :)
 
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